[HN Gopher] A Doctor's Dark Year ___________________________________________________________________ A Doctor's Dark Year Author : wglb Score : 41 points Date : 2021-04-21 19:44 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.newyorker.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.newyorker.com) | mrlagmer wrote: | It is interesting to read stuff like this. We never had it bad in | Australia so when you read something like this it makes you | thankful for how we have handled it. Amazing that we will have | 80,000 people at a football game on Sunday. | decafninja wrote: | The Asian countries that fared relatively well - | Taiwan/Japan/Korea/etc.etc. - I guess you could chalk it up to | cultural differences, but what and how did Australia, a | "Western" country that I reckon is culturally more similar to | the USA and Europe than to say, Japan or Korea, do so well and | differently vs. the USA? Correct me if wrong, but Aussie | culture has an individualistic streak like the USA too, doesn't | it? | vmception wrote: | Geography, topology, authoritative control, non-porous border | which was closed, mandatory two week quarantine for any | exception | rvn1045 wrote: | + a small population of 25 million | taxicabjesus wrote: | One speculation I've read is that Australian/Japan/New | Zealand's very-bad 2019 flu season was SARS-CoV-2 before it | could be diagnosed. My understanding was that most cases of | "flu" are suspected, not laboratory-confirmed. | | Just found this October 4, 2019 NY Times story: _Australia Just | Had a Bad Flu Season. That May Be a Warning for the U.S.,_ | https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/health/flu-australia-amer... | | From this NY times article: "This year's Australian outbreak | began in April [2019], two months earlier than usual, and | persisted into October." | | COVID-19 Cases in the US probably started November-ish. | COVID-19 was found in US blood samples from December 2019. | | I had a day with an odd headache sometime around December 2019 | or January 2020. I suspect I had a case of #EarlyCovid. Lots of | other people in North America were super-sick in | November/December 2019 and January 2020. Others have been using | the hashtag for longer than I: | https://twitter.com/search?q=%23EarlyCovid | | Edit: At least 4 downvotes in 16 minutes. This indicates many | of you do not believe could SARS-CoV-2 could have been | spreading before it was isolated in Wuhan China in December | 2019, or that I and many others might have had a case of non- | diagnosed SARS-CoV-2 before tests became available in the US in | March 2020. | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pande... | | "A September 2020 review noted "The possibility that the | COVID-19 infection had already spread to Europe at the end of | last year is now indicated by abundant, even if partially | circumstantial, evidence", including pneumonia case numbers and | radiology in France and Italy in November and December.[8]" - | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pande... | | What does it mean if the COVID-19 timeline is wrong? | projectileboy wrote: | I'm not totally sure why you're being downvoted, it's an | interesting question. My niece in Seattle had a very bad | "flu" for about three weeks early last year, well before the | initial wave in the Pacific Northwest. I hope we will | eventually learn a bit more about how and where this started | and how and where it spread, so that we can do a better job | next time. (Putting aside the obvious ways the US and other | parts of the world chose to deny reality, there still is much | to learn.) | bengale wrote: | I tend to find the overuse of the word hero bothers me, but I | don't know what other word would describe people like this. | pmiller2 wrote: | This would be a correct usage, not a performative usage like | corporations calling grocery store workers "heroes" because | they have to go to work or lose jobs they depend on. | raunak wrote: | https://archive.is/hEoUL | throwawayboise wrote: | Doctors always see people at their sickest and most fragile. I'm | not sure I could do it, but it's what they sign up for. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-04-22 23:00 UTC)